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About Shu Wan
I am currently matriculated as a doctoral student in history at the University at Buffalo. My dissertation primarily examine the history of deafness, including deaf politics, deaf community, and deaf education, in China between the 1880s and 1940s.Shu Wan is currently matriculated as a doctoral student in history at the University at Buffalo. As a digital and disability historian, he serves in the editorial team of Digital Humanities Quarterly and Nursing Clio. On Twitter: @slissw.
NBN Episodes hosted by Shu:
December 29, 2025
California, a Slave State
California owes its origins and sunny prosperity to slavery. Spanish invaders captured Indigenous people to build the chain of Catholic missions. Russ…
November 21, 2025
Drawing Liberalism
Drawing Liberalism: Herblock's Political Cartoons in Postwar America (U Virginia Press, 2023) is the first book-length critical examination of the pol…
November 16, 2025
Law in a Culture of Theology
Law in a Culture of Theology: The Use of Canon Law by Parisian Theologians, ca. 1120-ca. 1220 (Routledge, 2025) considers the study of law within its …
November 15, 2025
Write to Return
The revocation of the Edict of Nantes led more than 200,000 Huguenots to flee France after 1685. Many settled close to the country's frontiers, where …
November 14, 2025
Signature Wounds
The surprising story of the Army's efforts to combat PTSD and traumatic brain injury The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have taken a tremendous toll on…
June 14, 2025
Data Enclaves
Data Enclaves (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023) focuses on our increasing dependence upon Big Tech to live, manage, and enjoy our lives. The author examines …
May 28, 2025
Meeting the Moment
The histories presented in Meeting the Moment: Inspiring Presidential Leadership That Transformed America (SUNY Press, 2024) are of a select group of…
May 27, 2025
Banned Emotions
Who benefits and who loses when emotions are described in particular ways? How do metaphors such as "hold on" and "let go" affect people's emotional e…
May 25, 2025
Inclusion, Exclusion, Agency, and Advocacy
Inclusion, Exclusion, Agency, and Advocacy: Experiences of Women With Physical Disabilities in China, With Worldwide Implications (IAP, 2024) explores…
May 21, 2025
Chinese Workers of the World
Chinese workers helped build the modern world. They labored on New World plantations, worked in South African mines, and toiled through the constructi…
May 18, 2025
State Building in Cold War Asia
Departing from conventional studies of border hostility in inter-Asian relations, Yin Qingfei explores how two revolutionary states - China and Vietna…
May 16, 2025
Model Behavior
Mice are used as model organisms across a wide range of fields in science today--but it is far from obvious how studying a mouse in a maze can help us…
May 12, 2025
Window Shopping with Helen Keller
Window Shopping with Helen Keller: Architecture and Disability in Modern Culture (U Chicago Press, 2025) offers a history of how encounters between ar…
May 11, 2025
Democracy Moving
On the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth, renowned choreographer and director Bill T. Jones developed three tributes: Serenade/The Proposit…
May 10, 2025
Speed Capital
The 1909 opening of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway marked a foundational moment in the history of automotive racing. Events at the famed track and ot…
March 14, 2025
Between Families and Institutions
In contemporary China, people diagnosed with serious mental illnesses have long been placed under the guardianship of close relatives who decide on th…
March 12, 2025
Cinema Under National Reconstruction
Cinema under National Reconstruction (Rutgers UP, 2024) calls for a revisionist understanding of state film censorship during successive Cold War mili…
March 9, 2025
Disability in Ptolemaic Egypt and the Hellenistic World
Through a thoughtful investigation, Disability in Ptolemaic Egypt and the Hellenistic World: Plato’s Stepchildren (Routledge, 2024) reveals often-over…
March 3, 2025
Sideways Migration
Sideways Migration: Being French in London (Routledge, 2025) examines the relationship between migration and socioeconomic status. In particular, it c…
March 2, 2025
Visualizing History’s Fragments
Visualizing History’s Fragments: A Computational Approach to Humanistic Research (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024) combines a methodological guide with an ex…
February 27, 2025
Law in American Meetinghouses
Most Americans today would not think of their local church as a site for arbitration and would probably be hesitant to bring their property disputes, …
February 24, 2025
Enquiry-based Science Education
Students often think of science as disconnected pieces of information rather than a narrative that challenges their thinking, requires them to develop…
February 21, 2025
Buddhism and Intelligent Technology
Machine learning, big data and AI are reshaping the human experience and forcing us to develop a new ethical intelligence. In Buddhism and Intelligent…